[PATCH] fix null pointer in mtrace
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Wed Nov 13 12:59:00 GMT 2019
On 11/13/19 4:36 AM, Liusirui wrote:
> In a multi-threaded program, some threads request or free memory and try to write trace info
> into file which "mallstream" points to. At the same time, another thread calls "muntrace" and
> set "mallstream" to NULL. This may cause a segmentation fault.
>
> The comment in malloc/mtrace.c says "We could be printing a NULL here; that's OK.". Although
> the functions mtrace/muntrace are used for debugging, program isn't expected to crash while using
> these functions.
Just a reminder that we're still waiting on the completion of a corporate assignment from Huawei.
We can't accept these patches until that is complete.
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Cheers,
Carlos.
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